We are in search of a Sales Consultant responsible for presenting, explaining, and closing power sales contracts, including power purchase agreements and leases, with customers. You will gather essential customer and facility information for internal engineering and finance teams to build and price solutions accurately. In collaboration with the Resourcing team, you will identify and qualify suitable candidates prior to submission, as well as qualify and follow up on business leads. Additionally, you will develop, maintain, and leverage a network of SAP professionals from both client and candidate perspectives to drive business growth.
An Overview of Sales Consultant Job Description Responsibilities and Qualifications
1. The Sales Consultant will foster and maintain strong relationships with client accounts, focusing on reducing expenses in essential business services. This role involves collaborating with the local team and coordinating with Head Office resources to optimize client services and achieve cost reductions. Responsibilities include managing the entire customer lifecycle from initial engagement to ongoing account management.
Sales Consultant Roles and Responsibilities:
- Managing and overseeing the Value Process
- Acquiring all required documentation
- Maintenance of all Client information through the life of the Service Agreement
- Manage on-going account relationship
- Delivering initial Value Report and ongoing Post Audit Reports
- Acquiring approvals for recommendations (in tandem with analyst)
- Getting implementation paperwork completed and signed by customer (in tandem with Implementer)
- Provide general sales support (needs analysis, data review, and product demonstrations)
- Serve as the customer advocate and liaison for product management and development
- Prepare periodic forecasts and progress updates toward sales goals
Sales Consultant Education and Qualification:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business
- Ability to review, advise and comment on financial statements and reports
- 3+ years' of sales consulting or business intelligence experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize work
- Ability to work effectively both as an individual and a member of a team
- Ability to communicate clearly with customers --in person while maintaining composure and control, when possible follow-up may be needed
2. The Sales Consultant will focus on outbound B2B sales and marketing, reaching out to both existing and potential clients. The role involves asking insightful questions to understand clients' business needs and offering tailored, consultative solutions. With access to a diverse range of product offerings and lines, the Sales Consultant will craft solutions to drive sales and meet client objectives.
Sales Consultant Duties and Responsibilities:
- Walk the customer through a sales process articulating financial savings, features, and benefits of our solar systems in an accurate and professional manner.
- Differentiating our company from the competition in a confident and professional manner.
- Assess prospective customers’ energy needs and develop proposals, present solutions, answer questions and address concerns.
- Ability to meet daily, weekly and monthly sales and quality targets.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate with Business and Government entities.
- Review customer accounts, as appropriate, to determine current services and features, if any.
- Assist customers with a wide variety of questions via information accessed through the computer with the objective of offering products and services for customer purchase.
- Comply with customer requirements regarding accessing information and sharing of data.
- Review employee accounts and answer questions based upon established policies and procedures.
Sales Consultant Knowledge and Requirement:
- High school diploma required College degree preferred
- One-year full time sales experience.
- Ability to multitask (talk and type at the same time) and use multiple applications.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and listening communication skills.
- Proficient use of the Microsoft Suite and Windows applications
- Ability to generate sales while ensuring that the customers' questions, issues, and concerns have been satisfied.
- Ability to be flexible, adaptable, and dependable in an environment constantly changing while meeting sales expectations.
- Flexibility to work specified shifts and extended hours as necessary.
- Maintain current knowledge of assigned project's products and services through on-going classroom and computer-based sales training.
- Possess the ability to troubleshoot complex issues with little guidance
- Possess a high degree of tact, diplomacy, and professionalism when dealing with all types of customers
3. The Sales Consultant will deliver top-tier pre-sales support to Account Managers within the Central Government Client Group, with a strong emphasis on growth accounts. The role involves close collaboration with Account Managers to boost sales activities, which includes pinpointing market positioning opportunities, creating pertinent collateral, attending client meetings, qualifying leads, and preparing responses to tenders.
Sales Consultant Responsibilities and Functions:
- Provide pre-sales engagement for digital offerings (cloud, agile, DevOps, digital, digital transformation), drawing on SMEs where your experience may not cover the full breadth of the digital domain.
- Work collaboratively with cyber, data and products pre-sales colleagues to provide complimentary sales support; as our bids frequently involve more than one area of expertise.
- Lead the development of thought leadership in the digital domain.
- Work on and lead bids / proposals with digital aspects to enable us to hit our targets
- Enable the use of repeatable offerings by working with the Account and Sales teams to understand the market and with other SMEs, where necessary, to develop and propose appropriate offerings.
- Help define our strategy by working with Account Managers, Sales and Pre-Sales colleagues.
- Make our business an increasingly attractive, diverse and fulfilling place to work.
- The knowledge and experience to explain to our clients how our digital capabilities can support their digital transformation - you are likely to have experience of delivering digital solutions for government clients and of the Government Digital Service.
- Very good client facing skills with pre-sales or sales experience, ideally within the government domain.
Sales Consultant Educations and Qualifications:
- A high degree of enthusiasm for making a difference for our clients.
- Aptitude to learn and confidently describe our offerings and to solve digital related client problems.
- Good organisational and team working skills.
- Very good levels of verbal and written communication.
- Ability to prioritise and help others prioritise.
- Possess the ability to work under pressure in a sales environment
- Possess exceptional conversational, sales, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to multitask
4. As the Team Lead for the Consultant Program at Lamwork, you will take charge of our Consultant team, driving our mission to expand Lamwork's core business by positioning the Sales Consultant Program as a key sales channel in the USA. Your responsibilities will include developing and implementing scaling strategies, managing cross-functional teams, and serving as the representative for the Consultant team.
Duties and Roles for Sales Consultant Program:
- Build and grow the Consultant Program
- Lead and manage the cross-functional Consultant Program team
- Ensure the scaling and acquisition of our direct sales agents
- Collaborate on program initiatives with different stakeholders, such as channel optimization and content creation
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the Consultant Program with a hands-on mentality, ensuring the success of the program’s independent sales consultants
- Ideate, strategize and outline hypotheses to be tested on a weekly basis
- Plan and set OKRs with the team and on an individual basis
- Coach and enable team members to grow on a personal and professional level
- Find new and innovative approaches to grow the consultant channel and program
- Set relevant KPIs for the program and its stakeholders, and allocate resources accordingly
Experience and Qualification for Sales Consultant Program:
- Relevant work experience in a high-performing and fast growing startup environment
- Highly motivated, resilient, and entrepreneurial with the ability to find creative solutions in highly adverse situations
- You’re flexible and have excellent interpersonal skills
- You’ve previously proven that you can structure your work on your own as well as come up with your own hypotheses
- You’ve previously proven that you structure your work autonomously
- Can visualize the big picture with the ability with the ability to take action in the details
- The ability to adapt to rapid change
- Ability to perform duties with accuracy and a strong degree of urgency
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
5. As a Sales Consultant, you will play a crucial role in driving new business growth, managing client accounts, and ensuring successful candidate placements. Your primary responsibilities include proactively generating new business, maintaining strong relationships with existing clients, and delivering top-notch candidates to a diverse client base. Success in this highly competitive market requires a deep understanding of your clients' needs and the technologies involved, enabling effective communication with decision-makers from Fortune 500 companies. Your commitment to developing your qualification skills will be essential in achieving your goals and excelling in this role.
Roles and Duties for Sales Consultant:
- Develop and build long term strategic client relationships, through both telephone contact and face-to-face meetings
- Obtain and gain a full understanding of client hiring requirements
- In partnership with the Resourcing team, identify and qualify suitable candidates prior to submission
- Qualify and follow up business leads generated by the Resourcing team
- Develop, maintain and leverage a network of SAP professionals from both a client and candidate perspective
- Identify opportunities for other RED business units within your client base, and cross-sell our service offerings accordingly
- Achieve monthly, quarterly and annual sales and KPI targets
Educations and Qualifications for Sales Consultant:
- Additional languages preferred but not essential
- Determined and ambitious
- Proven track record of new business development
- Experience within the SAP Recruitment industry
- Confident, driven by success and money
- Open minded and receptive to training
- Sales, sales management, or renewable energy experience
- Excellent communication through oral and written form